Representative Democracy Flashcards
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Representative democracy
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Limited and indirect form of democracy - Popular participation is infrequent and brief and people are reduced to voting in who will govern them rather than having direct say.
Arguably the only practicable form of democracy in modern society
2
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Thomas Paine
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Regular elections needed to ensure that ‘the elected might never form themselves an interest separate from the electors’
3
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Anthony Giddens
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Democracy is effective competition between political parties for positions of power
